Gear

An Alembic in his collection.

His Alembic basses.

His preferred bass from 1985–86, used on Master of Puppets.

Class A active instrument DI and preamp in the rack.

Megan's signature lap steel.

His strings.

Multi-effects processor in his chain.

A worn sixpence instead of a plectrum.

The pickups in the Red Special.

A 50-foot run with Switchcraft and Neutrik connectors.

His custom basses, built to his spec.

Speakers loaded in his cabinets.

The glass bottle that gave him his slide tone.

A second signature model.

One of his axe-shaped signature basses.

Knobs and switches for echo, tempo and drive.

Gauges as large as .060 depending on tuning.

10–52 sets, stepping up to .060 for the lowest tunings.

The set he plays.

Her string set.

His own line of DR strings.

His strings of choice.

His string set, .45 to .105.

Rack preamp in her rig.

Bridge pickup in the AT100.

Neck and middle pickups.

The other half of his pickup pairing.

Pickup in the Ghost Telecaster.

His own signature pickups.

The brain of his switching rig.

His pick of choice.

Played on the ring finger, bare fingers on the strings.

The orange .60 mm Tortex he has used since the beginning.

Active humbuckers.

He still runs EMGs in his guitars.

Signature speakers in his cabs.

The Epiphone signature version, with nickel hardware and vintage Thumper pickups.

Used on all vibrato-equipped guitars.

His string gauge.

His strings.

Heavier strings for the deep, wide vibrato.

Heavier strings, tuned down half a step.

His signature Music Man.

Custom StingRays built to his spec.

The StingRay at the core of his sound.

Huge strings, tuned a half-step down, for that wall of sound.

His signature Jazz Bass.

His main bass, essentially unchanged for decades.

His main axes, tuned to different keys across the set.

The Precision behind the early Black Sabbath records.

Used for the higher, guitar-like lines.

His signature Jaguar Bass.

One of two vintage Precisions in the studio.

The second vintage Precision.

His signature P Bass.

His main bass from the '80s onwards.

A Jazz Bass he bought new and still uses.

The 'Frankenstein' Precision, one of his main stage basses.

Vintage P Bass that still travels with the rig.

His signature Silverburst Jaguar with a P/J pickup layout.

His main bass.

His main instrument since the 1970s.

The heavier P Bass he has played on Rancid's records.

Built by Fender R&D with chambers to ease a bad back — Pro II neck and pickups on a lighter body.

His signature instrument.

Her main bass.

His signature Jazz Bass V, played upside-down.

Gauge range .105–.085–.065–.045.

A mainstay of his rig.

His usual choice around The Bends.

Her electric bass.

A Fender Aerodyne Jazz.

His Precision, with famously dead strings.

Her later Tom Tom Club live bass.

Carefully chosen vintage basses.

Signature pickup set loaded in his guitars.

His signature Fodera.

Modeling rig fed into a Mytek converter.

In the rack of his live rig.

A 9–46 set — very light for how heavy the music is.

GHS 12s on all of his guitars except the Teles and Jerry Jones.

Ran the amp below 120V to brown out the tone.

A Gibson Ripper in his collection.

Her favourite bass.

Signature T-bird with a thin neck, finished black with gold hardware.

Her bass of choice in the early Talking Heads days.

The bass he played through the Cream years.

A custom hollowbody bass.

Used through the Vol. 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath era.

Switches his board for him.

For the open-tuning numbers.

Her picks.

A versatile Hipshot switch for drop tunings.

A Höfner in her collection.

His original 1963 bass.

Rack unit for harmonies and swells.

His signature Jackson Concert bass.

The handmade white John Birch bass he played on tour.

45-105 sets.

His signature pickups, with a push-pull for single-coil tones.

His signature bridge pickup in the EGC V.

Fitted to her basses during the Pixies reunion.

A replica of the bass he used with Them Crooked Vultures.

Four of them in his cabs.

Fitted to virtually all of his Jaguars and Jazzmasters.

His graphite-neck basses of the '90s.

The synth pedals played with his feet.

For the deep drones under the band.

A Moon Guitars bass in his collection.

Mouradian basses that have been part of Extreme since the Boston days.

His six-string bass.

Active bass with a punchy, scooped midrange.

The fretless that made his name.

A 2018 StingRay Special kept in the touring stable.

The attack behind his biting instrumental tone.

Feeds his laptop rig via an A/B switcher.

First stop after the cable.

His pedalboard and rack are routed through an RJM switcher for the first time.

His signature pickups.

His signature bass, in root beer burst.

A 1950s B6 with some ingenious engineering.

His early Led Zeppelin bass.

A core part of his early sound before the customs.

The Rickenbacker bass he played for decades.

His main bass on Kill 'Em All, with swapped-in EB and Seymour Duncan pickups.

The bass on the '70s records.

His ornate signature Rickenbacker.

The bass at the centre of the Yes sound.

Synth module in his rig.

The silky tape echo in his rig.

45-105 sets, the strings behind his piano-like tone.

The flatwounds behind his round, thumping attack.

Roundwounds, as heard on Queen's debut.

The rig is built with Rotosound strings.

.045–.105 standard four-string set.

A Sadowsky Vintage Jazz bass.

The wireless system that doubles as a signal boost.

Neck humbucker.

His signature pickup set.

Wax-potted, 7.8k, swapped into all his SGs.

Hand-built Custom Shop pickups in neck, middle and bridge versions.

Wireless system for the arena rig.

The five-string he calls his baby.

His main basses through the Pantera years.

Four-string he has played since the late '90s.

The carbon-fibre basses behind Muse's fuzz bass.

His 5-string, 5-pickup signature Space Bass.

The one upright she has always used.

His main bass on tour — a lighter replica of his first Wal, built with smaller tuning pegs.

The Wal at the centre of Tool's low end.

Available as 4- and 5-string.

His signature Warwick.

Assorted star-shaped and double-horned signatures.

Custom-made to his own very specific ideas.

A Yamaha BB3000 in his rig.

His main Joy Division and New Order basses.

For quiet stages and practice.

His first-call six.

His signature five-string.

He tours the third version, with a specially designed new neck pickup.

He uses several Zon basses.